The announcement will also send a message to the rebels, however, that NATO intends to continue its ill-conceived war indefinitely. This may make efforts to negotiate a ceasefire in the conflict, which has been essentially stalemated since April, all but impossible.

It was also usher in a growing humanitarian disaster in western Libya, where the United Nations is reporting that food and medicine are in short supply. With NATO promising to continue bombing this half of the country for another 90 days, it seems that this will only get worse going forward.

And in 90 days, they'll extend it another 90 days and then another 90 and so on and so forth till EXXON can do its thing and Libya has been properly colonized vis-a-vis a network of military basis and at least 50,000 troops on the ground.

Isn’t it great to be alive in a time when wars are ended by legislation and fiat rather than either side winning or losing! Think of how much blood and treasure would have been saved if the two World Wars could have been dealt with in this way. This is, of course, due to the benefits flowing from having wars “in” countries – first introduced and now brought to perfection by the USA – as opposed to having wars “between” countries. Another major benefit – at least for the instigators of the “in-country” wars if not for the inhabitants of the chosen war zone – is that it does not impact the citizenry who are hardly aware that their countries are at war at all. How enlightened we have become, to be sure.